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yeah, but didn’t the peaches, tomatoes and green beans you get at White Rock Market taste much better than any produce from a grocery store. Mine did.

http://www.gurmpydemo.com Grumpy Demo

Having listed to “Freakonomics” for years on KERA on Market Place, they almost always are shills for pro-corporate Right Wing economics.

No surprise they don’t like something that isn’t agri-business corporate friendly.

To paraphrase Dickens:

“Freakanomics knows the price of everything and the value of nothing”.

Amy S

Yes, Bill, they do. And the produce that is shipped cross-continent allows for a huge amount of wasted food which is lower with a local producer. I didn’t notice that figured into the economic model. Eliminating waste increases productivity.

Dallas County used to be covered with truck farms, at some time (and I think it’s related to property taxes and land speculation for either development or oil/gas exploration) it no longer became profitable. Even as suburban sprawl shoved these small farmers out, it would seem that the “farmland ring” around the city would have expanded with the city. But it didn’t.

Poundofbacon

Interesting lecture over his topic..25 minutes in gets more to the point